Matthew Quick Quotes

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

I hoped this was true. Even if it wasn‟t, all I could do was hand over what I could, with the hope of something in return. But of course, this was easier said than done.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

Since women ask me about male motives all the time, I can offer a bit of advice. If you feel like you're going to get hurt then you shouldn't be there in the first place. That's the way I look at relationships.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

Blessed are those that nought expect, for they shall not be disappointed.